Atelier Binder ~ Margo Lion (1899-1989). Cabaret artist, singer, actress, heavily made up, with crossed arms. Published in 1927 in: UHU 9/1930 and UHU 3/1933 | src getty images
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The great cabaret performer Hildegarde (born Hildegarde Loretta Sell in Adell, Wisconsin) never married, working and living with her partner Anna Sosenko for decades.
In 1955, after nearly a quarter century together, Hildegarde broke things off due to what she perceived as innuendo being printed in the paper about them after they appeared together on Edward R. Murrow's Person to Person TV show.
While that may have been the spark, the breakup had a long fuse, given that, reportedly, Sosenko was, for years, abusive, controlling and manipulative toward Hildegarde and pretty much everyone else around them. (See: Monica S. Gallamore, "Introducing the Incomparable Hildegarde: The Sexuality, Style, and Image of a Forgotten Cultural Icon." PhD diss. Marquette University 2012. pp. 253 ff.)
In this 1935 performance for British Pathé's cameras, Hildegarde performs "Darling, Je Vous Aime Beaucoup," a charming Frenglish love song written by Sosenko, whose mix of languages echoes that used by Hildegarde and Sosenko in their personal correspondence. (ibid., pp. 261-2)
Hildegarde, along with Mabel Mercer and Bobby Short, is on the figurative Mount Rushmore of New York cabaret. Nominations are currently open for the fourth slot.
A rare photo of Hildegarde and Anna Sosenko together.
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Event: 1259 July 2023
Venue: Metropolitan Studios
Photographer: amelliag_photography
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Tracklist:
I Want You to Love Me • Shameika • Fetch the Bolt Cutters • Under the Table • Relay • Rack of His • Newspaper • Ladies • Heavy Balloon • Cosmonauts • For Her • Drumset • On I Go
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Love, Me Normally by Will Wood is Transgender and Asexual!
requested by @20-crows-in-a-trenchcoat
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So I think the thesis statement of my cabaret show (shhhhh, just go with it and pretend that a thesis statement is a normal thing for a cabaret to have) is going to be about how my love of singing and my relationship with my voice have always been my guiding stars in coming to a deeper understanding of my own gender identity. How my identity as a singer and my gender identity are so completely intertwined that I don't even know how to talk about one without talking about the other.
But, you know. Spoken in pithier, more theatrical lines than that, and illustrated by a bunch of (mostly) show tunes.
Not too tall an order, right?
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Privatfoto von Margo Lion, from a Fotoalbum (1920-1932). From Marcellus Schiffer und Margo Lion Archiv at Akademie der Künste
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Tracklist:
Maria • Wolf • Wait for Me • Home • Fire with Fire • Dream of Better Things • Saddam • Fight for Me • It Gets Better • Jazzy Number • And So Do I • Final Prayer • Time
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